own team ( we are working with 2 other teams this month. One of which is made
up of the girls from my old team) Amanda, and Kerry. We go to the first house
and it was a lady from our pastor’s church. We all assumed that we were there
to encourage her in some way so we begin to talk to her and she tells us about
her daughter.
family had been deeply affected by witch craft for generations. Her own mother
is a witch-doctor and has been training the granddaughter in with-doctery for
awhile. The witch-doctor that trained the grandmother had killed the mother’s
husband, brother-in-law and her firstborn child through witch doctor ways.
What?! And now the daughter was becoming involved in it through the
grandmother. Pastor told us that last time she had been around people who were
worshipping God the demon inside her manifested and tried to kill her by
choking her with her own hands. So now we know that we are dealing with a demon
possessed woman. We ask the daughter a ton of questions but have to leave
because of time. So the next day we bring some praise songs and try to see if
what the pastor is telling us is true. We pour ourselves into it but nothing
happens. She tells us she wants to be delivered but we run out of time again
and so we ask her to come back again.
This time we
dive right into a salvation prayer for her after she tells us she understands
who Jesus is and his sacrifice for her. After this Pastor takes over and tells
Amanda and Kerry to help pray and tells me to sing some worship songs to bring
the Spirit to our situation. He says a few words to her in Swahili and she
falls to the floor stiff as a board. Here’s the dialogue as translated by
pastor:
Girl: (whining and crying)
Pastor: In the name of Jesus leave !
Girl: I am going but I was sent!
Pastor: Who were you sent by?
Girl: (says a name in Swahili)
Pastor: (looks at the mother) who is that? Do you know them?
Mother: yes that is her grandmother…
Pastor: (prays some more in Swahili)
Girl: (calms down and stops thrashing…finally wakes up and
sits up)
By this point we were all asking her if she was ok. She had
come in with bad stomach pains saying that it felt like something was wriggling
around. And her eyesight had become worse since yesterday. After the demon left
she had no more pain and could see completely clear! Bwana asufiwe(praise God)!
We of course had tons of questions and pastor answered most of them. The only conclusion I can come to is that God is way more awesome and
mighty and sovereign than I thought. He is a God who cares so much for his
people that He cries when they are hurt, shows them his creation in the most
beautiful ways and even guards their very lives. Praise God you guys.
Seriously. Praise God.”
